First Light
How First Light worksTuesday 27 October·
- Sunrise
- 07:55
- Quiet hour
- 06:19–07:07
- Brahma Muhurta
- Moon
- Waning gibbous
- Next full moon: Tue 24 Nov
Autumn
The quiet hour (Brahma Muhurta) is the traditional time for practice, just before sunrise.
यथाभिमतध्यानाद्वा
yathābhimata-dhyānād vā
Or by meditating on whatever uplifts you.
Yoga Sutras 1.39 · verse 39 of 196
Unfolding the thread
After a list of methods, Patanjali makes the most generous suggestion of all: meditate on anything you find truly uplifting. A sacred image, the sea, a line of poetry, the face of someone you love. The Sutras don't insist on one path. What matters is that it draws your mind into steadiness, not what it is.
Try today
Pick one thing that lifts you (a view, a word, a memory) and give it five undistracted minutes today.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
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